In our final conversation with Rose, we discuss the effects of stress on gut health and how breathing can significantly impact our immune function.

It’s no secret, that sleep is the the most crucial parts of our every day life. It is important for maintaining optimal health and well-being.  Like regular exercise and a balanced diet, getting enough good quality sleep improves your brain performance, mood, and overall health.

Hiding in the frosty soils of our winter kitchen garden are the knobbly brown tubers of the Jerusalem artichoke.

Sometimes called the earth apple or wild sunflower, it originated from the Americas and is a member of the daisy family.

Thymes "calendar of happenings" is packed full of seasonal lessons on how to have fun, guided by its beautiful botanical gardens in the Gloucestershire countryside.

Balance in life is so important for both health and happiness and after the high octane, often exhausting festive season, now  is the perfect time to rest, reset and be kind to ourselves.

If we can learn how to recognise the signs of low grade, chronic stress we can begin to manage it, take the matter into our own hands and restore balance in both our body and mind, to retune our engine. 

This ritual switches off the body's stress response by activating the parasympathetic nervous system through the powerful combination of diaphragmatic conscious breathing, scent, nature and positive thought training.

The effects of conscious diaphragmatic breathing, scent and nature on our wellbeing are profound, empowering and well established in scientific principals – switching off your stress response and harnessing your body’s innate ability to heal itself.

We are delighted to have been featured in The Telegraphs, best healing escapes in the UK for a touch of Winter wellness, from sliding into toasty, low-lit pools to treatments that range from simply restful to reassuringly serious.

‘A simple yet sumptuous country house, every detail at Thyme is thought through to bring guests back to nature and provide a place to truly, deeply relax.

‘If any hotel in the UK could embody an enlightened, home-grown take on wellness (and generally the good life), it would be Thyme in Gloucestershire’.

Using hydro-distillation of leaves, fruits, flowers and other freshly harvested plant materials from the farm and gardens we create wonderfully fragrant pure botanical extracts that make the most beautiful cocktails.

Part of the rose family, its large hips are best picked after the first frosts which help to soften the fruits, a process called bletting.

‘Reassuringly the gardens and grounds remain as stunning as ever for crisp winter strolls. And design lovers will purr over the magnificent Ox Barn, where there will be live jazz on the 21 and 28 December, plus a New Year’s Eve bash with a DJ and Pol Roger bar’.

We are delighted to have been featured in The Telegraph, with fabulous winter gardening tips provided by Bunny Guinness in the grounds of Thyme’s Kitchen Gardens.